American civil war Quote by Charles B. Dew

“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105”

— Ahmad Fuadi

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“We may struggle one way but we are all being dragged another by our heritage, by history.”

— Alex Christofi

“We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed as lying and corrupt, we believe…

— Georgia Clark

“History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of a nation's…

— Will Slatyer

“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true.  We only hear the stories the victor wants told.  The remaining stories, the…

— H.K. Savage

“(28) “Doctrine draws on the lessons of history”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of…

— Mary Alice Monroe

“Therefore, I wish to say it again: The biggest story of the last fifteen years, both nationally and globally, is the growing likelihood that…

— Tyler Cowen

“doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of…

— Barack Obama

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical…

— Jonathan Alter